Traveling while Residency card in process

[Olbaid]

To whom may be able to provide assistance.

I am Italian and my wife is Chilean, we arrived in December 2015, my wife applied for a residency card prior to her tourist visa ending. Currently we wish to travel outside the UK for holidays, however we are being told to obtain a EEA Family visa for her to be able to reenter the UK. Since we plan to take a few days, a week max, it would not be enough time to obtain a EEA visa outside the UK.

What can we do within the UK so that she can reenter after the holidays?
She did not need a visa to enter as a tourist, if we provide the Home Office documents upon reentry would she get turned away?

thanks for your help!

[noajthan]

To whom may be able to provide assistance.

I am Italian and my wife is Chilean, we arrived in December 2015, my wife applied for a residency card prior to her tourist visa ending. Currently we wish to travel outside the UK for holidays, however we are being told to obtain a EEA Family visa for her to be able to reenter the UK. Since we plan to take a few days, a week max, it would not be enough time to obtain a EEA visa outside the UK.

What can we do within the UK so that she can reenter after the holidays?
She did not need a visa to enter as a tourist, if we provide the Home Office documents upon reentry would she get turned away?

thanks for your help!

Carry id (ofcourse) plus marriage certificate, evidence of sponsor exercising treaty rights, COA if you have it.

You can get into the head of the IO who will greet and question you at the border in internal UKBF guidance, here:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... ndents.pdf
- ref section 5.5

The person should be given “every reasonable opportunity” to prove by other means that s/he is the family member of an EEA national; a person should not automatically be refused admission as a result of not being able to produce adequate evidence

[Olbaid]

Thank you!!! I had called every number and they seem to be cultivating my patience.